PennLive.com features an article titled "Specter stands up to party's threats."
In the article Specter imbues an air of confidence over his vote for the stimulus package.
The senator is out to prove that, agree or disagree on any particular vote he casts, you have to respect the position he has earned.
By calling Friday's press session, the senator was like a veteran bantam prizefighter out to prove he was in total control of the ways, means and narrative of his next title match.
But if there's a primary, he seems fully capable of employing his indefatigability and tenacity to demonstrate, not so subtly, that messing with him would be, well, foolish.
Somebody should remind Specter about Harry Reid, the top ranking Democrat, who wants control of the next election.
Reid pressured then Governor Blagojevich about his choices to replace Barack Obama's seat in the Senate.
Days before Gov. Blagojevich was charged with trying to sell President-elect Barack Obama's U.S. Senate seat to the highest bidder, top Senate Democrat Harry Reid made it clear who he didn’t want in the post: Jesse Jackson, Jr., Danny Davis or Emil Jones.
Sources say the Senate majority leader pushed against Jackson and Davis — both democratic congressmen from Illinois — and against Jones — the Illinois Senate president who is the political godfather of President-elect Barack Obama — because he did not believe the three men were electable. He feared losing the seat to a Republican in a future election.
"The welfare of the country is more important than my seat in the Senate," Sen. Arlen Specter said Friday afternoon.
Senator, you hold onto that thought. I hear that the word at the Allegheny County Republican Committee Lincoln Day Dinner is your seat at the dinner table is already occupied.
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